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This listing contains all the analytical materials posted on the Russia Matters website. These include: RM Exclusives, commissioned by Russia Matters exclusively for this website; Recommended Reads, deemed particularly noteworthy by our editorial team; Partner Posts, originally published by our partners elsewhere; and Future Policy Leaders, pieces by promising young scholars and policy thinkers. Content can be filtered by genre and subject-specific criteria and is updated often. Gradually we will be adding older Recommended Reads and Partner Posts dating back as far as 2011.

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Fearing and Ignoring Russia: A Recipe for Trouble

Paul SaundersOctober 01, 2019
RM Exclusives

Historian Mark Smith’s provocative book won’t give the U.S. a policy to manage its relationship with Russia, but it does offer some valuable guidance in thinking about strategic solutions.

The Paradox of American Russophobia

Sean GuilloryJuly 03, 2019
Recommended Reads

The Russian government’s use of Russophobia to chastise critics is nothing new, but this doesn’t mean Russophobia doesn’t exist. It’s a way of “displacing an internal conflict to an external object symbolically related to the conflict.”

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Russia’s ‘Peripheral Authoritarianism’ as Described by Grigory Yavlinsky

RM StaffMarch 22, 2019
RM Exclusives

In his new book, one of post-Soviet Russia’s most enduring liberal politicians describes the emergence of his country’s current system of governance and predicts its impending doom.

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Russian Nuclear Forces: Buildup or Modernization?

Hans M. KristensenSeptember 14, 2017
RM Exclusives

Russia is not increasing its nuclear arsenal, though some commentators keep saying it is. What's important, however, is to monitor how Russia is modernizing its strategic nuclear forces.

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Russian Military Buildup in the West: Fact Versus Fiction

Michael KofmanSeptember 07, 2017
RM Exclusives

Until 2014 Russia was largely cutting the number of troops on NATO's borders to move them elsewhere. The war with Ukraine changed that, reawakening Moscow to the possibility of a large-scale war on its western front.

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Yes, Russian Generals Are Preparing for War. That Doesn’t Necessarily Mean the Kremlin Wants to Start One

Simon SaradzhyanAugust 30, 2017
RM Exclusives

Past experience suggests that two conditions must exist for Russia to use military exercises as a cover for foreign military interventions and neither one is in place today.